Improved family-laundry



H. E. SMITH.

FAMILY LAUNDRY.

N0v 50,964. Patented Nov. 14, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

I MPROVED FAMILY-LAUNDRY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,964, dated November 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Family-Laundry; and I hereby declare the following tube a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to an arrangement of washing and drying apparatus adapted to operate with a greater economy of time, fuel, and labor than is possible with the ordinary household appliances.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a laundry embodying my improvements, a portion of the wall of my drying-chamber being removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of my drying-chamber.

A is a brick or other furnace.

B is the drying-chamber.

G is a flue, which, receiving the smoke of the furnace A, conducts it around or across the floor of the chamber B and discharges it into a chimney, D, which may form part of the rear wall of the chamber B. The chamber B is tightly closed at top, and is provided with a descending flue, E, for the reception of the vapors evolved in the operation of drying and the discharge of the same through apertures E in the chimney D.

F F F F are sliding racks to receive the articles to be dried.

G is an elevated tank to hold water.

H is a pipe, which, emerging from the lower part of the tank Gr, passes into the lower part of the fire-space in the furnace A, and, being coiledaround the same at H, returns at H to the upper part of the tank.

1 is a pipe from the tank G to convey hot water, by means of cocks 'i and i, to washingmachines J J.

K represents a mangle. v

Driers heretofore constructed have had their ventages for the escapeot' moisture carried upward from the upper part of the chamber. Such arrangement, while effective for carrying otf moisture has at the same time carried off and wasted the heat. This evil I avoid by closely inclosing the upper part of the drying-chamber andhaving the only passage of exit therefrom the descending doctor flue, E, which communicating at bottom with the chimney-,'* the draft of the latter is made available to suck the moisture from the chamber, leaving the drier and more buoyant portions of air in the chamber.

The furnace A serves the double purpose of heating the drying chamber and also of heatin g the wash-Water.

- The chimney D is made to serve the double purpose of carrying otf the smoke from the furnace and the vapor from the drying-chamber.

I claim herein asnew and of my invention- 1. Ventilatln g a dry house or chamber from the bottom, substantially in the manner and for the purposes specified.

2. The dryingchamber'B, having a smokeflue, O, and a dgscending vapor duct or passage, E, which ac and duct discharge intoa common chimney, I).

3. Heating the dryingchamber and the wash-water by asingle furnace, A, in manner substantially as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

Witnesses: HAMILTON E. SMITH.

GEo. H. KNIGHT, J AMES H. LAYMAN. 

